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My remake of the Alvin Lucier artwork I Am Sitting in a Room was released 10 years ago today. To mark this occasion I want to revisit how I made it and troubles I had remaking it for 2019. In November 2019 I Am Sitting in a Room was exhibited at Gamerz Festival in…
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Love it or hate it, Comic Sans is one of the most popular fonts in the world. Vincent Connare designed the font for Microsoft in 1995. He described it is best being used for “new computer users and families with children”. Despite this it has constantly been misused and can be seen everywhere from…
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Making Dataface was really quite an exciting journey. What started off as an attempt to make a typeface inspired by glitch art turned out to be a story of collaboration, exploration and hours of research. Here, I will go through my process. As you may have seen from my previous experiments in vector databending…
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Inspired by Alvin Lucier‘s I Am Sitting in a Room piece I have taken Dataface one step further In glitch art we only ever see result of the process of damaging an image, video or sound. Rarely can we observe this process as it happens within the computer in an instant. Using Alvin Lucier’s…
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After months of hard work I’m happy to finally release Dataface Special thanks go to various hackers at fizzPOP for all of their help, GB for programming help and Scribbleboy for general guidance. You can view of preview of the font here on Flickr. There will soon be a lovely writeup of how it…
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Dataface is coming along rather nicely! It looks different from my previous updates as I’m using a different method for glitching the typeface. This may change yet again if a script that I’m working on decides to work.